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Volume 23, Number 3 Summer
2006
Biblical Caring:
Read Trafecanty, pp. 6-11.
a/ Read the references listed in table one, p. 9 in
your Bible. In what ways do these verses reflect
the caring God shows us? List specific things God
does to empower caring in his people.How could
these help you with your caring as a nurse?
b/ Read the story Jesus told of the Good Samaritan
in Lk 10:30-35.What elements of compassionate
care do you find?
c/ Choose one or more passages from Rom 3:10-26;
Gal 5:19-26; Col 3:5-10;Tit 3:3-7. How do the
verses you read describe people in our natural
state? How do they describe people redeemed in
Christ? Do you think these attributes impact caring?
How?
Evaluating Worldviews:
Read the editorial on page
one.
a/ Read Col 2:6-23.What do you think “worldly philosophies”
means in this passage? Are there worldly philosophies in nursing
today? On what criteria do you base your opinion? What principles
are offered in this passage for evaluating worldviews?
Understanding Mysticism:
Read Willard, pp. 34-36.
a/ Read Gal 2:20-21. Put into your own words 3 differences
between mysticism that is attaining a status of “Union with
the Absolute” and the relationship with God described in
this passage (i.e., God is a person vs. an “illusory All”).
b/ What does Willard say is the specific “color”
of Christian mysticism? What does that mean to you?
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